Paul Shlichta: Choice Of Weapons

The gun grabbers forgot about this one.   The advocates of gun control seem to believe that, by restricting or eliminating private possession of guns, all violence can be eliminated. However, recent events have tragically demonstrated that would-be assailants have a wide choice of weapons, including knives, explosives, automobiles,    ... MORE

VIDEO: Rand Paul - The GOP Must Stand For Liberty

Brian Witte: Pot Legalization Will Not Deter Drug Czar

The will of the people be damned.   The nation's drug czar said Wednesday the legalization of marijuana in Washington state and Colorado won't change his office's mission of fighting the country's drug problem by focusing on addiction treatment that will be available under the federal health overhaul.  Gil Kerlikowske, director of the   ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Immigration Gambles - Part II

Whose interests are immigration laws supposed to serve  -- and whose interests do current immigration reform proposals actually serve? In order to have any immigration policy serve any purpose, the border must first be secured. Otherwise American immigration policy exists only on paper, and is mocked by what happens on the      ... MORE

VIDEO: Don't Cops Have Better Things To Do


Sex first, then arrest hooker. Your tax dollars at work!

Doug Bandow: America On Welfare

Great society needs to be replaced by free society.  Living the good life on welfare. Even the Europeans recognize that they pay a high price for creating an increasingly dependent society. Denmark has been transfixed by the revelation of a 36-year-old single mother who collects more in benefits than many Danes earn at work, and has done so ... MORE

The Good Guys Are NOT Coming To Save Us

by Paul Rosenberg.   A lot of Americans know that the US government is out of control. Anyone who has cared enough to study the US Constitution even a little knows this. Still, very few of these people are taking any significant action, and largely because of one error: They are waiting for “the good guys” to show up and fix things. Some think  ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: The Bogus 'Public Safety' Exception

The Fifth Amendment doesn't need to be sacrificed.   Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, captured last Friday evening, was not informed of his right to remain silent and his right to a lawyer until Monday morning, nearly three days after his arrest. The FBI said the delay was justified under the "public safety" exception to Miranda v.   ... MORE

Robert H. Nelson: The Fractured Left

Good news on natural gas is bad news for Democrats. Much has been said recently about the deep tensions within the Republican party. Far less has been said about a sharp division arising inside the Democratic party. That latter tension was front and center recently when former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell wrote an op-ed piece   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Incentives Of Taxation

Thomas Sowell: Immigration Gambles

When political correctness replaces self-preservation. Britain's late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said it all when she wrote that the world has "never ceased to be dangerous," but the West has "ceased to be vigilant." Nothing better illustrates her point than the fact that the West has imported vast numbers of people who hate our guts and    ... MORE

Peter Ferrara: Fight Back! Privatize The FAA

They are really asking for it this time.  If you are an air traveler this week, you might get a dose of how it feels to be deliberately abused by your government to score political points. President Obama and the Democrat Party are so adamantly opposed to any semblance of cuts in government spending that they cannot abide the sequester that ... MORE